The man Putin really trusts

In a system of government where the State Department has degenerated into a mere facade under Sergei Lavrov, who is far better known in the West, Patrushev delivers what leaders of the Global South have come to expect: insights into the logic of Russian power politics and anti-Western, especially anti-American sentiments. The 71-year-old is a mobile outpost of Putin’s worldview – a worldview formed by the KGB, to which Patrushev, like Putin, adheres.